Cork was the third county from the province of Munster both to win an All-Ireland Senior Football Championship (SFC), as well as to appear in the final, following Limerick and Tipperary.

Hurling is the dominant sport in the east, with teams such as Sarsfields and Midleton having won Cork's club championship multiple times.

Naturally, there are exceptions to this rule of thumb, with hurling pockets in football areas and vice versa.

As well as this, the St Finbarr's club in the city has ten Cork football titles and twenty six in hurling.

In its early days of competing, the county wore a blue jersey with a saffron-coloured 'C' emblazoned on the chest.

In the week leading up to the game, British forces broke into the county board offices on Maylor Street in the city centre and seized the Cork jerseys.

Because of the loss of their kit, the county board borrowed jerseys from the now-defunct Father O'Leary Temperance Association team.

[4] This red and white colour scheme has led to the Cork strip being nicknamed the blood and bandage.

These alternate colours were worn in the 1973 All-Ireland Football Final when Cork defeated Galway to claim their fourth title.

In 1983 Kerry was aiming to capture a record ninth consecutive Munster title; however, Cork pulled off one of their surprise victories.

In a close game, Cork emerged victorious by two points to claim a second consecutive championship.

While it was expected that the team would build on the success of 1999, Cork went into decline as Kerry began to dominate in Munster.

The game started on a level pegging; however, Kerry ran riot and captured the title with a 3–13 to 1–9 victory.

In April 2010, Cork won the National Football League Division 1 title with a 1–17 to 0–12 win against Mayo at Croke Park in front of a crowd of 27,005.

The county entered a team in 1888 and went on to win their first All-Ireland title in 1890 when Aughabullogue beat Castlebridge of Wexford.

A bizarre turn of events, however, would eventually allow Cork to be declared champions but would also cast doubt over the value of their victory.

As a result, Cork faced Limerick in the Munster final, and defeated them, before hammering Dublin in the All-Ireland decider for one of the handiest championships ever won.

In 1942 Jim Barry and his Cork team set out to prove that their victory had not been a fluke caused by outside events.

They just about prevented an upset in the All-Ireland semi-final, squeezing past Galway before walloping their old enemy Dublin in the final.

It was one of the great one-man shows by Christy Ring who, at the age of 25, collected his fifth All-Ireland winner medal.

On the day before World War II broke out, Cork faced a Kilkenny side who were playing in their fourth final in five years.

Christy Ring, who had again proved instrumental in the victory, was shouldered off the field with blood streaming down his face and a bandage around his head.

In a low scoring game Cork won by a single point, however, the battle didn't stop at Croke Park.

They regained their Munster crown, courtesy of a hat-trick by Christy Ring, and set up another All-Ireland final showdown with Wexford.

Their goalkeeper, Art Foley, saved a great shot by Christy Ring and cleared the ball.

In a show of solidarity Bobby Rackard and Nick O'Donnell of Wexford shouldered Ring off the field.

There was even speculation that Christy Ring, the age of 45, was about to come out of retirement to play for Cork, however, this didn't happen.

The possibility of completing a famous four-in-a-row looked extremely likely in 1979 when Cork captured their fifth Munster title.

Two goals from Seánie O'Leary and Tony O'Sullivan sealed victory for "the Rebels" and they advanced to an easy win over Offaly in the All-Ireland final at Semple Stadium.

Jimmy Barry-Murphy, who had given so much service as a player, masterminded the youngest Cork team ever to another All-Ireland victory.